In her first big move as president of Random House Publishing Group, Sanyu Dillon announced promotions to expand the leadership team of Harmony and Rodale, naming Theresa Zoro president of the two imprints. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Knopf buys a memoir from WNBA star Brittney Griner, and Teju Cole sells his second novel to Random House. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason’s North Woods, “a sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries,” which will be published by Random House in September.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-11 14:00:21 UTC ]
Random House Children's Books has acquired publishing rights from Hasbro for 'Kiya & the Kimoja Heroes,' a new animated action-adventure series starring a seven-year-old African girl, Kiya, whose passions for dancing and martial arts are transformed into superpowers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
Teju Cole’s new novel Tremor will be published by Random House this October. Cole told Lit Hub: The best book designs are, in my view, not illustrative. They stand as their own thing in some sort of relation to the book, at a cooperative angle to it. I feel lucky to have worked with the […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-03 14:00:48 UTC ]
Lockdown in Literature, by The Editors of WLT Lit Lists [email protected] Mon, 03/20/2023 - 14:39 Photo by Jens Maes / Unsplash There has been plenty of handwringing among some over whether it’s too soon to write pandemic literature, but these... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-03-20 19:39:01 UTC ]
The certified B Corporation aims to reach an audience of 50 million girls by 2025 as it continues to publish new books and expand into new media and storytelling formats. On Monday the girl-centered media brand Rebel Girls announced an $8 million Series A funding round led by publishing giant... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2023-03-06 09:30:00 UTC ]
The country’s largest publisher has had a rocky few months since a deal to buy a rival fell through, and some of its top executives left. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-02-28 21:08:29 UTC ]
The highlight of a new operating structure for Penguin Random House is the creation of separate Random House and Crown adult publishing groups. No replacement has been named for departing PRH US CEO Madeline McIntosh. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Ed Park’s long awaited second novel Same Bed Different Dreams, which will be published by Random House this fall. Here’s a bit about the novel from the publisher: March, 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-24 15:00:34 UTC ]
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s novel Promise, which Danielle Evans calls “a stunning exploration of the weight and triumph of legacy” and which will be published by Random House in July. Here’s some more about the book from the publisher: The Kindred... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-23 15:00:59 UTC ]
Author Lorenzo Carcaterra looks back at nearly a quarter century working with the retired Random House editor. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
Two CEOs have stepped down. A storied executive has retired. And a big legal loss isn't entirely in the rearview. This year, the U.S. book market's biggest publisher is planning some major structural changes. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House Audio has acquired Playaway Products, a producer of physical audio players and tablets preloaded with content. Launched in 2005 and based in Solon, Ohio, the company offers 36,000 titles and works with some 40,000 libraries and institutions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Duffer Brothers, creators of the Netflix hit 'Stranger Things,' were big fans of the Choose Your Own Adventure middle grade series and a tie-in based on the fourth season of the show is coming from Random House in April. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
About three weeks after Gina Centrello retired as president and publisher of the Random House Publishing Group, McIntosh announced that she will step down as CEO of Penguin Random House in the very near future. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Centrello, head of the Random House Publishing Group (“Little Random”) since 2003, has retired. In her memo to employees, PRH CEO Madeline McIntosh said she will take her time in developing a plan to find Centrello's successor. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
Random House buys a memoir from Ketanji Brown Jackson, Katee Robert sells the first three in a series to Berkley, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
The chief executive of the largest publisher in the U.S., Penguin Random House, has stepped down. Markus Dohle oversaw the attempted acquisition of Simon & Schuster. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-12-09 14:47:10 UTC ]
The editor-in-chief of Electric Literature sells a debut novel to Random House, Europa takes on a novel by the director of the Turin Book Fair, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-18 05:00:00 UTC ]